Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Long, Mary Beth.
Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England.
- Published
- Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023.
- Physical Description
- viii, 296 pp.; 6 color illus.
- Description
- Explores how "latent Marian maternal elements" inform a range of late medieval texts, focusing on how the devotional ideal of "imitatio Mariae"--rooted in Mary's "inimitable biology" as virgin and mother--informs Marian imagery and echoes in Margery Kempe, Middle English lives of mystics and saints' legendaries, and Chaucer's Marian works. Chapter 5 addresses how the presence of ABC and PrT in manuscripts containing other Marian texts encourages "matricentric" reading of Chaucer's works, while Chapter 6 considers how Marian material in SNT helps to make Cecilia a "metaphorical mother."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
ABC
Prioress and Her Tale
Second Nun and Her Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies